|ImageDesc=Proof that the Romanesco Broccoli is a natural example of the Fibonacci sequence:

|ImageDesc=Proof that the Romanesco Broccoli is a natural example of the Fibonacci sequence:

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It looks as if the Romanesco Broccoli is a natural example of the Fibonacci sequence. However appearances can deceive. A mathematical and scientific proof does not. I took the main image of the broccoli and I put points on each of the vertices of each fractal iteration. Then I connected each point and made line segments between them. [[image:Ratios_Fibonacci_2.png]]

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It looks as if the Romanesco Broccoli is a natural example of the Fibonacci sequence. However appearances can deceive. A mathematical and scientific proof does not. I took the main image of the broccoli and I put points on each of the vertices of each fractal iteration. Then I connected each point and made line segments between them.

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Although the broccoli looks like it grows in accordance to the Fibonacci sequence, does it really? By making ratios between the distances of the vertices of each iteration of the fractals, and then making ratios between the numbers in the fibonacci sequence, then plotting them, the growth of the broccoli in accordance to the sequence was proved.

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Proof that the Romanesco Broccoli is a natural example of the Fibonacci sequence:

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Proof that the Romanesco Broccoli is a natural example of the Fibonacci sequence:

It looks as if the Romanesco Broccoli is a natural example of the Fibonacci sequence. However appearances can deceive. A mathematical and scientific proof does not. I took the main image of the broccoli and I put points on each of the vertices of each fractal iteration. Then I connected each point and made line segments between them.

I then measured the line segments, and going from largest to smallest, I made ratios between the largest line segment and the next largest until the last line segment was reached.The image I used for this was a side view of the broccoli.

I repeated the process with an image of the broccoli from above.

I then took the first few numbers of the Fibonacci Sequence and created ratios between them from largest to smallest, just like I did with the line segments on the broccoli. I created a chart with these ratios.